What colour are duns usually born?

It depends what colour they are underneath this is one of mine as a foal he was lilac and as an adult he looks a bit like a bay (which he is underneath). I think that his father was a homozygous dun, sadly he was under used and only had a few foals.

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The true duns I have seen as foals look definitely dun, they have the dorsal stripe and often the other characteristics, including the dark face. Their legs are usually covered in light coloured fluff like bay foals, this goes when they lose thier foal coat to reveal the black (in the case of yellow dun or black dun).

My dun as a foal (he is a black dun and also has grey but not really apparent at this stage)

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Dorsal stripe
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I was just clarifying whether we were talking about true duns or buckskins. I agree that both are born true to colour but they are very different and frequently confused.
 
thanks everybody the reason why I ask is that my friend has rescued a connemara mare and foal. The ex-owner said the stallion was a grey connemara as well. She showed me a pic of the foal and he looks a light bay colour. I suppose he might go lighter.
 
Kaylum said:
thanks everybody the reason why I ask is that my friend has rescued a connemara mare and foal. The ex-owner said the stallion was a grey connemara as well. She showed me a pic of the foal and he looks a light bay colour. I suppose he might go lighter.
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'If' the foal is dilute it will be buckskin rather than dun. Dun doesn't exist in connnemaras.
 
Dun does exist in connemaras and was actually one of the original colours of them. If you look on the society pages there are quite a few stallions that are dun. But anyway we will have to see :)
 
Kaylum said:
Dun does exist in connemaras and was actually one of the original colours of them. If you look on the society pages there are quite a few stallions that are dun. But anyway we will have to see :)
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Apologies if this is the case. I thought dun only existed in Highlands and Shetlands. I thought the so called dun connemaras were, in fact buckskins, dating back from the time when the difference in the cream and dun genes was less clear than it is today. I will certainly go and look on that site.
 
Kaylum said:
Dun does exist in connemaras and was actually one of the original colours of them.
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In name only. Dun and buckskin are two different genes and only the buckskin gene exists in Connemaras, however, confusingly the Irish (incorrectly) call buckskins dun.

I digress, in this case it doesn't matter whether the foals colour is dun or buckskin, both colours remain.
 
Kaylum said:
Dun does exist in connemaras and was actually one of the original colours of them. If you look on the society pages there are quite a few stallions that are dun. But anyway we will have to see :)
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Dun does not exist in the Connemara, they are buckskins, they have relatively recently discovered that it is the cream and not the dun gene that is causing the colour, all those stallions previously classified as duns are in fact buckskins.
 
appylass said:
Apologies if this is the case. I thought dun only existed in Highlands and Shetlands. I thought the so called dun connemaras were, in fact buckskins, dating back from the time when the difference in the cream and dun genes was less clear than it is today. I will certainly go and look on that site.
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well I didnt know until a my friend bought one many years ago and I did some investigation. LOL!

and springfeather here is a pic of the dun my friend had or rather the buckskin
(I am still trying to understand the difference).


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Amaranta said:
Dun does not exist in the Connemara, they are buckskins, they have relatively recently discovered that it is the cream and not the dun gene that is causing the colour, all those stallions previously classified as duns are in fact buckskins.
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Ok thanks!

Also seen an amazing dun Registered ID and he has a black strip down his back.
 
So,answer this one ..my yellow dun Highland has a filly foal by a few spot Appie,she is at the moment a dun,her eel stripe is ginger rather than black like Mum`s,she even has the little white ear tips her mother has..will the whole colour of the Highland entirely cancel out the few spot factor? Or will she eventually colour out somewhere?
 
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